Formerly a pioneer in digital/web art direction, Kirsty has a BFA (UNSW COFA) and an MFA in electronic and temporal art from USYD SCA 2003. She was finalist in the 2021 National Emerging Artist Awards.
Two of her sculptures were selected as finalists in the NSW Fishers Ghost Art Award 2020. She was also a finalist in the Victorian 2020 Klytie-Pate biennale ceramics award. She completed an Advanced Diploma in Ceramics from NSW TAFE in 2021. She recently exhibited artworks at Hazlehurst Art Gallery, in the Movers and Shapers II women’s art exhibition and in the Ceramics and Emotions exhibition, Kudos Gallery.
Kirsty is a disability activist – totally deaf with one cochlear implant. A rare-disease advocate with Cogan’s Syndrome, (ears, eyes and vestibular system), she is investigating developing new artwork engaging the deaf-blind, deaf, blind communities to transform the gallery space going beyond the tokenistic access model.
Participating in the leadership program will enable me to better engage with and build a network with other disabled people to grow knowledge and get extraordinary things done together and make meaningful change.